The Daily times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1886-1889, 1887-12-07
CREAM OF THE PRESS.
TIKI IDEAS or 4 VERY BUSY DA y By
BUSY PEOPLE.
Repu bIican Prospects - Prohibition sts.
Powers Of the states In Liquor Trsf'ic
The Russian Ministers Of Wharf.-The
Pendulum In the Supreme Court.

| Pendulum In the Supreme Court.
The New York 7,mes says OF the pros
poets of the Republicans that they have
not st red a step In this direction as yet.
We have had two sessions OF Congress
since the new Administration took office,
and three times since the election OF 1884
We are now entering upon the last ana
most important. before the election OF
/, 1893 Up 10 the present time the Repub-
licans have confined themselves to extrav-
agant and monot0nous denunclation OF
The party 10 power, falling entirely TO
recognize what that party has really done
that is good, and failing equally to either
help or force that party ID do more that
10 good
The Prohibilionists nay be said 10 have
taken the field for 1888. The recent con
ference of their National Executive Com
mittee at Chicago settled that the Ma
tional Convention should be held at In
dianapois during the first week OF next
June: new chairman WIS elected to
succeed the late John b. Finch in the
person of Samuel Dckey. Of Michigan,
who Is clergyman, a college professor,
and, 80 IL Is said, shrewd politician
aud il is we'll understood that the candi
date for the Presidency was informally
selected General Clinton Il. Fisk, who
succeeded in polling l9,S0o votes lssi
year AS Prohibition candidate for Gov
ernor of New jersey w ! 1ribans
The Supreme Court decided the Kansas
eases In fay. of the State an laid down
the principal that stale has tulI power
absolutely 10 prohibit The manufacture
and sale OF lqhor within It's borders
Whom making any compens diOn iof
property DESTROYED or injured
/ This question ol compensation was d
new one ia The conirJyeis, Twas cOn
l,nd, Il that Il slate could not prohibit
: the LIQUOR ir,ifir without making com.
pensaIiOn fof The property In breweries,
disllllerles, &c., ruined, since tins wOulu
I be simply taking property without due
profess of law it, violation OF the fed
erai constitution. That view was upheld
by the United States Circuit Court in Kan.
sa.. But he Supreme Court holds lhst the
State DOS not take the property and that
for any depreciation Of its value, or even
iis total destruction, the owner has no
valid claim against the Siate.-A
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Il is reported mat Count TOlstOi, Rus
sian Minister of the Interior, and NJ. De
hanofT Minister Of Public instruction,
are about 10 retire. The former Of these
officials not long ago issued an order 10
all the institutions of higher education in
the Empire not 10 accept students FROM
LII. al I'M zfrf4 al
classes The reason given for closing The
University gates 10 such applicants was
that education rendered them discOn-
tented with their lot, unhappy in their
family surroundings and troublesome
citizens generally The business Of Min
listers having TO DO with education ia
Russia would seem to have been to sup
press education. Perhaps the reported
changes mean modification of that policy.
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\ young Bostonian has written to sew
eral prominent generals asking how they
felt in their first battles. General SheT
man says that such questions are hard to
answer. Admiral Porter says his first
battle occurred when he WAS twelve years
of age and that lac did no, feel much
afraid General PieasantOn remarks that
his first battle was in Mexico in 1916, and
that he felt that the sooner the enemy
was thrashed the better ii would be /;
while General Averll says that the battle
of Bull Run, 1861, was his first, and that
when he saw the enemy he thought that
great and useless crime was about to
be committed -E,rchdHge
Referring again TO the land grabs under
the Republican dynasty, contemporary
says These abuses particularly Hour
ished under Republican administrations,
and are prominent among the evils which
the Demo ratio party pledged itself TO
remedy. Not little progress has been
made, and much more would have been
had not the Republican Senate refused
last winter 10 pass a bill susp nding the
Presumption and Timber Culture acts
under which the frauds were being car
ried on As 1t is, since the incoming OF
the Democratic Administration Ia, IT
have been restored TO the people no less
than As, 1858 1874 acres, l4,23s 9l3 being di-
rectly cancelled for fraud and the bulk Of
the remainder recovered from the rail
roads"
|, The increase Of the department osti
, mates by $25,000,000 over the sum voted
last year the fresh raid of the pension
agents; the proposition to mount can
non on every headland" 10 establish
Government training schools and kinder
gariens, to erect public building al
every four corners, and generally 10 scat
ter the peoples hard earned money with
a lavish hand-sll this is due 10 the sur
plus.
To cut of the surplus Is to kill all the
Jobs and grabs at one stroke. Hence tax
reduction is the fist issue TO be settled
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: The Philadelphia Times says OF the
States rights part OF the recent decision
The peLdulum, as Justice Miller lately
said, had swung so far away from the
} Just recognition Of the authority of the
States that il had become important Ia
reassert the true constitutional doctrine
with emphasis.